Experience

Senior Engineering Manager — The New York Times

Remote (New York, NY)

January 2021 - Present

Senior Engineering Manager — Gatsby

Remote (Berkeley, CA)

January 2020 - December 2020

- Introduced product-focused squads, planning ceremonies, and goal-setting exercises to a team of twelve engineers, leading to faster shipping speed
- Drove company-wide adoption of project management tooling, resulting in better visibility and alignment
- Initiated new processes or process improvements around incident management, releasing to production, triaging customer service requests, and product suggestions/feedback

Engineering Manager — CircleCI

Remote (San Francisco, CA)

June 2019 - January 2020

- Managed a newly formed team of frontend engineers, working to create process and build empathy
- Created separation between growth and marketing and engineering work, creating better focus and removing excessive context switching
- Rolled out new “agile steward” process, leading to greater shared context within the team, as well as additional opportunities for individual growth

Frontend Engineer & Product Engineer — Manifold

Remote (Halifax, NS)

November 2017 - June 2019

- Led frontend testing efforts, increasing coverage from < 10% to 80% in a 6 month period
- Refined technical exercise and hiring process, leading to faster hires and greater diversity
- Created animations and d3.js visualizations to improve UX for product billing pages

Software Engineer — BuildIt @ wipro digital

Brooklyn, NY

March 2017 - October 2017

- Successfully advocated for a refactor of Redux actions and reducers, increasing clarity and ease of future development
- Led TDD efforts in React codebase, using Jest and Enzyme
- Leveraged MS Graph API to develop internal room booking tool

Frontend Engineer — Tablet Hotels

New York, NY

August 2016 - March 2017

- Participated in a rewrite of Tablet’s consumer-facing booking site, transitioning from Knockout.js to React
- Worked independently on projects as the only frontend engineer during a transition period of ~3 months
- Implemented new search feature using the Google Maps API

Education

Web Development — App Academy

New York, NY

April 2016 - July 2016

1000-hour full-stack web development bootcamp with below 3% acceptance rate

Topics include: TDD, scalability, algorithms, OOP, coding style, REST, security, single-page applications, and web development best practices

BA Music Performance — SUNY New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

August 2007 - May 2010

GPA 3.9, Summa cum laude

Named outstanding graduate by School of Fine and Performing Arts